I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

Remember... a Malinois watch just means conditions are right for a Malinois. A Malinois WARNING means a Malinois has already been spotted.

Is there anything else like James Earl Jones's reenactment of Robeson's testimony that's a great listen? Long-form is ok

I just want to make a brief announcement that using props in a yoga class doesn't mean that you "can't do the pose" or whatever. Props are tools, use them. You are way better served getting YOUR best expression of a shape than you are trying to match some ideal.

Add your voice: One of a number of bills designed to shore up our elections against the contrivance of Republicans backing billionaires. 202-224-3121 Use @resist.bot to amplify your call: Text ‘sign PDBIPH’ to 50409 resist.bot/petitions/PD...

You can also apply a synthetic pesticide called permethrin on your clothes and insect repellant on any exposed skin

He really love them students

She is right that indie film has become nearly an impossible way to make a living, and people are fighting to get jobs like hers. I really wish there were contingency clauses in low-budget contracts for if a movie goes stratospheric, the crew should get to share in that.

"...For all of us who have done Sesame Street for so many years — we’re all a part of a team that’s committed to children and that is such a big part of who we all are as artists and workers. Sesame Street is us." Happy Birthday, Roscoe Orman!

This week's EFFector: 🔊 Mass surveillance to stop… loud music? 👤 Meta quietly removes facial recognition code 🤖 EFF warns Congress about AI for government surveillance. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

"Before the music started, the singer-songwriter and producer explained: 'Where have I been for the past few years? Well, I've been on the road touring. I'm here with you all today, and I wanna do a few songs throughout the catalog.'" Joe — Tiny Desk Concert: www.npr.org/2026/06/10/g...

Great news! COVID rates are low. Is it time to give up taking precautions? A🧵about Long COVID and “giving up”. Never Gonna Give You Up (Rick Astley cover)

Memory just popped into my head of TDK’s bizarre ads from the 80’s which looking back , were way ahead of their time: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Meps...

Major “The Matrix” vibes: m.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ-Y...

Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US

In the latest Video Game History Hour podcast, Library director Phil Salvador and producer Robin Kunimune take you through the process of preserving a collection of over 10,000 digital files from our GamePro CD collection: https://gamehistory.org/episode-157-our-library-practices/

An Akai ad from the 80s

Neither Grim nor Platner nor any of the endless stream of multipartisan White men complaining about not being the center of the universe at all seconds in time in every world conceivable, would be able to withstand a week in the life of the women/poc/queer people they seem to look down on so much

On June 24, join editors & contributors of “Science Teaching for Social Justice” for a book launch celebration hosted by @rethinkingschools.bsky.social! Educators & students are exploring how social & political systems shape science, & how science can be a tool for equity & justice. Register: ⬇️

Want to submit your public comment about the OMB Grant Proposal but not sure how? Join us TOMORROW at 2 PM ET for advice on how to submit a public comment. Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/8CuPh #OMB #Vought #StandUpForScience #Science #SaveScience

GRAVIKORDS WHIRLIES & PYROPHONES Experimental Musical Instruments Bart Hopkin Foreword by Tom Waits 37 inspired builders of new & unusual musical instruments #Mondo2000 issue 16 (1996) #Cyberpunk archive.org/details/Mond...

Sit back and enjoy the flight —Tom Waits American musical instrument inventors incl Harry Partch, Robert Moog, Richard Waters, Leon Theremin, etc Hear AQUAVINA Marvel at HOLOGLYPHIC FUNKALIZER Be Astounded by BUCHLA 400 Be Stupified by PNEUMAPHONES … Witness GRAVIKORD! archive.org/details/grav...

"The pieces were performed from a piano enclosed in a dimly lit box covered in fabric, situated opposite the stage from the ensemble, mimicking [Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru's] own cloistered life as a nun. Each return to Gebru’s works anchored the audience back in the box after every venture outward."

It’s been one year since the Bethesda Declaration and little has changed at the NIH. The fight for science and the health of the American people continues – and we need you in this fight. Take action here: zurl.co/QyEcA Article: zurl.co/B1E20

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My local bookstore rocks

CURB YOUR TIME TRAVELING www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp7P...

The Millvale Food + Energy Hub will serve at the Volunteer HQ for PRIDE Millvale on Saturday, June 20! Sign up by June 13 to be a day-of volunteer! You'll receive a free t-shirt and lunch (plus Lemon Tree PGH snacks and coffee for morning shifts). More info here: www.pridemillvale.org/volunteer

This is nonsensical. Libraries buy huge numbers of books you wouldn't otherwise sell. They're a massive discoverability vector for authors. The reasons behind the declining author earnings are not hard to guess. People read less, have less $ to spend, +media is being consolidated by megacorporations

Repost if your account is a safe place for the trans community 💙🩷🤍 Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️‍⚧️

Tokyo Pride took place last Sunday. 15.000 people marched through Shibuya and Harajuku for a future of diversity and equality. #PrideMonth

Russell Vought has a plan for science, but so do we. Join the fight by taking action against the latest OMB grant funding proposal at the link in our bio, or go here 👉 zurl.co/m6icR #StandUpForScience #Science #OMB #Vought #SaveScience

I love sidecars

See change.org below, too. Congress needs to hear from you. If you’ve never written or called Congress, now would be a good time: 202-224-3121 ☎️ or use @5calls.org @resist.bot Text ‘sign PMVNXI’ to 50409 👇 #resist #impeach #congress #Trump resist.bot/petitions/PM...

"jury nullification" is a phrase and concept that anyone can read up on

"When working in film scoring, the piano often became a central element to [Ryuichi Sakamoto's] work, and there is no clearer example of this than the extraordinarily haunting theme from 'Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence'."

Hilda Hudson mathematician graduated @Newnham_College 1903 ad eundem degrees @tcddublin 1906 & 13. 1917 joined Air Ministry for aeronautical engineering research, applying mathematical modelling to aircraft design Cremona transformation. b. #OTD 11 Jun 1881 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_P...

Sick of AI, social media and horrible tech? Celebrate the good bits of the internet with THE TINY AWARDS 2026! The Tiny Awards celebrate the small, non-commercial, fun, silly, poetic, frivolous web - nominate your favourite site from the past year here, and please tell the world: tinyawards.net

write for one person permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/write-for-one-person/

New post: The Poetry of Math How analogy is the engine of thinking, and how this connects poetry and math 🧵

The curse of documenting obscure game magazines is that whenever I try to search for them... the catalog record I wrote is the first result 😬👍

Here for Summerween. #summerween #gothsummer #spookybabe #SpookyStyle #socks #sheersocks

“A 10% tax on Musk’s $1 trillion fortune could end global extreme poverty for a year.” Imagine having enough wealth that a small fraction of it could help end global extreme poverty for a year, and choosing to keep it instead. www.oxfamamerica.org/press/soon-t...

gosh i wish i could get paid to wear a skirt and clickity clack mechanical switches all day i mean, i guess i kinda do, but not the giant ones that go KER-CHUNK

6/11/1942 — b. Maxine Baca Zinn, American sociologist, researcher, author, professor. Leading expert in the fields of family, gender + ethnicity; one of an elite group of female sociologists. Authored many publications #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #sociology #SciSky #HistSci #womenwriters #FamilySky

Truth

Sweet little berries. #kawaii #cutesocks #sheersocks #summerstyle #summerfashion #summersocks